Images Dated 2019 March

Pretty Polly - Queen of the Turf - sponsored by Apollinaris

Horse Racing - Pretty Polly - The Queen of the Turf - sponsored by Apollinaris, "The Queen of Table Waters". Pretty Polly (1901-1931), was an outstanding Irish bred Thoroughbred racehorse and an outstanding broodmare. She won fifteen consecutive races and was only the fifth filly to win the British Fillies Triple Crown since its inception in 1814. Date: circa 1905

Berkeley Arms, Purton, Gloucestershire

Landllady of The Berkeley Arms, Purton, beside the River Severn, Gloucstershire. A customer collects his pint of beer through a serving hatch at the side of the public bar. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

1980s, 1989, 80s, Arms, Bar, Beer, Berkeley, Eighties, Gloucestershire, Hatch, House, Landlady, Pub, Public, Purton, Serving, Traditional

Woodcut print

Square-format Woodcut print. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration. From the middle of the 1920s, she moved on from earlier highly-decorative fairy art to produce beautiful monotone woodcuts in a distinctly oriental style. This artwork (as seen here) was produced under the name Molly MacArthur, or F.M. MacArthur. Date: circa 1920s